9 Months

Last week someone said to me isn't it strange that Sarah has been outside of you for as long as she was inside of you?  And I responded, not quite.  And though technically 40 weeks isn't until another 8 days or so, I feel 9 months is somewhat of a milestone.  We got her a leapster table a couple weeks ago off Craigslist and in the few weeks since we've had it, she can now pull herself up to a standing position using it, and grab across the table to the "instruments" that she likes best, when before she couldn't reach.  My mother and TJ commented this morning how tall she's gotten, so I'm quite excited about getting her measured tomorrow, though I suspect this means she's nearing the end of her infant car seat.

In other developments Sarah has graduated from creeping to crawling.  And she's fast! If she sees something she wants, she's off and ... crawling?  Unfortunately she has not yet discerned the ability to realize that she can't keep crawling once she reaches the edge of the couch or our bed.  We've added more and more solids to her diet, which makes keeping her busy at restaurants much easier now that I can just rip off a piece of bread or some rice and feed it to her.  Though she is starting to develop an independent streak, where she wants to feed herself.  I'm not sure I'm ready for that mess yet.

No talking yet - but she's great at imitating snorting.  For some reason she no longer laughs, but curls her upper lip and snorts.  Perhaps her teeth get in the way.  Or perhaps the baby cold that she's passed to everyone else in the family continues to rear its ugly head.  I suspect we'll get a mama (or more likely a dada) sometime this month.  I'm excited except I read on some message board it's so much harder to ignore a crying baby and let her put herself back to sleep when she's not only crying, but she's crying for you.

As this blog is for my own records, I'll probably post again tomorrow with her weight, since I know her Grandma and Ppa are always concerned about their little peanut!